Re: [Samba] 3.0.21c and big wmv or mpg files - Samba

This is a discussion on Re: [Samba] 3.0.21c and big wmv or mpg files - Samba ; Tom Peters wrote:
> Tell me, do you get this problem when you drag/n/drop a file into a
> folder on the samba share? And can you prevent this problem from
> occurring by the following procedure?
I cannot see ...

I'm the maintainer of this samba package and therefore interested in to
correct this.
> Click in the target window on the samba machine (this is on the XP
> desktop). Press F5 to refresh the view. Wait about a second. Immediately
> start your copy. When I do this, the errors, previously reported to the
> desktop and to my server log, don't occur.

The user copies the file with:

- right click to the local file and 'copy'
- right click in the share and 'insert'
> I've been told that it's a WinXP only issue, that it attempts to connect
> on ports 445 and 139 nearly simultaneously, and then proceeds to talk
> over whichever one answers first. I'm told that Win2k clients won't have
> this problem, and Win98 clients don't use port 445 so it doesn't arise
> there.

How did you adjusted your clients? On tab 'WINS'/Netbios properties (all
translated from german):

While copying the wmv test file a have a cpu utilization of 95! percent
(top) of smbd at the time, samba creates the sparse (?) file in the size
needed for the test file.
Maybe this is problematical on smaller systems. Samba is running here on
an VMWARE on top of XP (the test client) with P4 3,2 GHz: